For 22 years, Helene Godin was a hard-charging lawyer for companies like Audible and Bloomberg. These days, she’s a different kind of advocate. As founder of , a purveyor of gluten-free, dairy-free and kosher breads and desserts, Godin’s become an unlikely champion of alternative eating. For someone who swears she couldn’t bake before beginning her…
Workers prepare final batches of matzos at Streit’s matzo factory. Photo by Julie Botnick “This is the bread of affliction,” we say on Passover, holding up the dry, flat matzo that will be ubiquitous in our lives for the next week. Anyone who has eaten it daily for the whole holiday knows that the affliction…
Aviva Kanoff with her cookbook, “Gluten Free Around the World.” Photographs courtesy of Aviva Kanoff. Aboard the Balclutha, a historical ship docked near the San Francisco Maritime Museum, an incongruous assortment of Bay Area denizens from Chabad, the art world and elsewhere came together last month to celebrate the publication of “Gluten Free Around the…
Photographs: © 2014 Helen Norman Around the time I was 15, I stopped eating anything that contained gluten and soy, two ingredients that are found in the majority of American food products. Gluten is the protein found in wheat and several related grains, such as barley and rye, and soy refers to any product made…
Inside Kosherfest 2014. Photograph by Liza Schoenfein The first food that jumped out at me yesterday when I walked into the vast Meadowlands Exposition Center in Secaucus, New Jersey, for Kosherfest 2014 was the gluten-free granola. The latest offering from Foodman’s Original Matzolah, the cranberry-and-orange flavored product is wheat- and nut-free. Its prominent placement (Matzolah…
When Tim Horel was in his mid-30s, he tripped over his shoelaces and wound up shattering both of his elbows. “It was way too early for him to be breaking bones like that,” Lisa Stander-Horel, Tim’s wife, told JTA. The cause for Tim’s weakened bones turned out to be celiac disease, a condition in which…
Entering the Hummus Bar in midtown Manhattan, I knew this was going to be the most challenging moment of my weeklong gluten-free experiment. I’ve been in love with hummus for years. When I lived in Tel Aviv, at least three times a week I ate a plate of the chickpea dish for lunch. I never…
Months after super storm Sandy, the full extent of the damage is still coming to light. This year, customers around the country scouring local grocery stores for their favorite Passover sweets will be sorely disappointed. Shabtai Gourmet, a company that provided gluten-free kosher for Passover cakes and cookies — including favorites like rainbow cookies, cupcakes,…
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